User group Agenda

The Fairmont Hotel  
San Francisco, Californi
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Tuesday January 31, 2006
7:30-8:15 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:15 Welcoming Remarks          

Scott Keefer, Sr. Applications Scientist Cellomics' Center of Excellence

8:25-8:45

Cellomics Update

Dan Calvo,
President & CEO, Cellomics
8:45-9:30

Cellomics Product Update for 2006

Joe Zock, Manager, Customer Support

Mark Collins, Ph.D., Sr. Product Manager, BioInformatics

Sarah Tencza, Ph.D., Product Manager, BioApplications
9:30-10:00 “Identifying and quantifying phenotypic changes with High Content Screening by integrating Cellomics ArrayScan VTI HCS Reader and Dharmacon’s siRNA library”

Anja Smith, Ph.D.
Research Scientist II
Dharmacon, Inc. 
Lafayette, CO

10:00-10:20 Biosensors and gene switched proteins for High Content Screening

D. Lansing Taylor, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Cellumen Inc.,
Pittsburgh, PA

10:20-10:35 Coffee Break
10:35-11:00

Evolution of a Cytometry Laboratory: or- How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love HCS

David Gebhard
Principal Scientist
Exploratory Medicinal Sciences/ Lead Assessment Team
Pfizer Inc. Groton CT.

11:00-11:25             

Ramping up for Quantitative Analysis of Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiac Myocyte Progenitors

Lila Collins, Ph.D.
Geron Inc.
Menlo Park, CA

11:25-11:50             

Application Moment – Live Demonstration
Neuronal Profiling

Neil Durso, Ph.D., Manager, Field Applications
11:50-
12:15 PM

Open Forum –  A Facilitated discussion to “Ask Cellomics”

Panel Members:
Dan Calvo, CEO, Cellomics

Mark Collins, Sr. Product Manager, BioInformatics

Sarah Tencza, Product Manager, BioApplicaitons

Rick Salisbury, Director, Product Development

Neil Durso, Manager, Field Applicaitons

12:15-1:00

Lunch provided by Cellomics

Open seating
1:00-1:45

Cellomics Tips and Tricks –
 6 things you need to know about.

Joe Zock, Manager Customer Support

Neil Durso, Ph.D., Manager, Field Applications

Scott Keefer, Sr. Application Scientist, Center of Excellence

1:45-2:15 HCS Manipulation of a Mitotic Indexing Marker for Detection of Aurora Kinase Inhibition

Kristin Gamo
Staff Research Associate I
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA

2:15-2:45

Profiling Anti-Angiogenic Compounds Using a High Content Endothelial Cell Cord Formation Assay

Mark Uhlik, Ph.D.,
Scientist
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis IN

2:45 Closing remarks

Dan Calvo, CEO, Cellomics

Scott Keefer, Sr. Application Scientist, Center of Excellence.
3:00 Adjourned